𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒍
𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛 📝 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 📖 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚛 ✨
𝘞𝘐𝘗𝘴: 𝘭𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 🌈
𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 🐺
💌 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 & 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 💌
𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳/𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴
- What could be more spiritual than not knowing? What could be more spiritual than an open, wandering, curious mind? Spirituality is not inherently religious, and in fact, I think it is something that the most atheistic of people can practice and hold.
- I am so lucky to do the things I don't always want to do.🩷 Not only this, but I have the power to make those things even sweeter. I have the power to sprinkle joy in every moment. ✨
- I started to think about my younger self and all the parts of my life that she would be in awe of. I grew up in a very isolated and controlled environment, and even though taking my dogs on a walk every day is tiresome, I would have been thrilled to be able to take a walk by myself when I was young
- Romanticizing my life gave me the strength not just to live my life and push through, but I started to love my life again... or maybe for the first real, authentic time ever
- I imagine that the creative self is not like this. If the attentive self is Monica from Friends, the creative self feels a bit more like Phoebe.
- I have been resisting the call of the creative life and world and self. She’s always been there, waiting for me. And, finally, without meaning to, I’ve invited her in.
- My attentive/social self is exhausted. She’s been running the show, trying to make me “good.” She’s the one who makes sure I am smiley and cheery, even when things are crumbling. She makes sure I’m likable, flexible, and “chill.” As Taylor said, “I cry a lot, but I am so productive, it’s an art.”
- Reposted by 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒍Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
- Reposted by 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒂 𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒍It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
- “Marigolds are the most resilient flower. I… had to be more resilient than most did at a young age. And if my knowledge can help women feel less isolated in their struggles and thoughts, then I would say I accomplished my goal.” - @stangirl1989.swifties.social open.substack.com/pub/forthema...
- just finished writing my 2 letters of the month 🩷✨💫🌿❄️ my goal is to write 2 letters every month because i have 24 sheets of personalized stationary. it felt very intentional and also very vulnerable and thoughtful in a way a call or text doesn’t feel. highly recommend sending a loved one a letter 🩷
- i’m working on an article about places to donate, places to shop, subscriptions to consider changing, etc. does anyone have any good recommendations that i can include? 🩷
- ✨🌿☁️stop trying. take long walks. look at scenery. doze off at noon. don’t even think about flying. and pretty soon, you’ll be flying again ☁️🌿✨ rewatching kiki’s delivery service and having it teach me about burnout and rest wasnt on my bingo card today, but it was much needed 💫
- my body is asking me to slow down and i haven’t been listening. now i think it’s slowing me down to make me listen
- 🩷💌🦊✨
- i’ve been in the practice of keeping a commonplace notebook. this is my first art i’ve made in mine. 💚🐝✨ my therapist told me that the heart is the queen bee - it has an electromagnetic field 5000x more than the brain and takes 100x more energy than the brain. i thought that quote was so gorgeous!
- waking up on tuesday january 21:
- nothing will stand in between my heart and my soul and my arms that hold space for my loved ones and my community
- is anyone else so exhausted and drained this january? 😴 i think i’m spiritually hungover from my nightmare of 2024 and absolutely dreading what’s to come politically in 2025 and it’s leaving me paralyzed
- my christmas present to myself 💌✨🤭
- It’s easier to pretend that you’re on the side of the oppressor than admit you’re just as much prey as all the people who you are targeting. It’s not just not being a “girl’s girl,” it’s delusion.
- There is a side of me that wants to show people from my past the person I have become and keep becoming. I’m nowhere near healed (no one is) and not without flaws. I want them to know the new me. I want them to see the ways that I have changed. And, sometimes, that actually isn’t helpful to anyone.
- sometimes grief just finds me. it feels like my heart will stop. the wild scream wants to claw out of my throat and my limbs want to fall to the floor, and my mind does what it does and starts to leave my body. and i’m left, this wild, primal, raw animal and also this small, broken, hollow shell.
- holding all the pieces of myself together is a new challenge. one where i can talk about my grief if i need to, but people don’t assume i need to unless i bring it up. it’s challenging to be stricken with a grief episode
- if i were to bring honey to the bear in my own woods, in the shadows of my soul, in the part of my that contains ancestral knowledge and wisdom, what would she say?
- i took my vision board a little too seriously and had to make one big one, then 3 little ones 🤪✨
- my vibe for 2025 ✨💌
- there’s a special place in hell for condescending readers
- there were many times in 2024 that i didn’t think i would possibly get through. i got through, i ended up with a scrapbook FULL of beautiful memories - i had to omit many photos because they couldn’t fit. thank you 2024 for not only making me resilient but showing me how to have joy
- i’m kinda down for anything from march - september.. brunch? dancing? picnic? movies? dinner? coffee? games? i’m there! but once late fall hits, i start to slow down. when dec and jan come, i’m not up for much. i’m hibernating. i’m the hermit card. i’m in my bear era. i’ll see you in march 😘
- mary oliver wrote, “the sunflowers themselves [are] far more wonderful than any words about them.” maybe that also means any photo we could take of them.
- going no contact with my mother broke her heart, and it also broke mine. it is never an easy decision, and it was probably the most painful decision of my life… which should show how bad it must have been to make that decision, not how unkind i am. #nocontactwithparent#narcissisticabuse
- you will never have a good day if you wait for a good day to find you. you have to create your own beauty and joy, babe. you have to decide to find it and create it. ✨🦋
- writing + an earl gray scone + a london fog = heaven ❄️✨🫶
- A little snippet of an essay I wrote about my mom ✨
- a poem I made with a coffee shop’s magnets
- I spent most yesterday sobbing (first Xmas since my mom passed) but I’m a resilient babe who wants joy above all else ✨ I’ve made an itinerary for the day to do my makeup as girly, go journal at a coffee shop, stop by Barnes and noble then the dollar tree to get canvases for paint night tonight. 💕
- The Hermit is alone, but she is not lonely. The Hermit is connected to community, but she comes back to quiet solitude. The Hermit writes in her notebook over a cup of tea in the morning. The Hermit enjoys waking before the sunrise and spending the first hour of morning in quiet stillness.
- being a beginner is EXCITING. don’t rush out of the beginner phase, don’t feel embarrassed by it. there’s so much to learn and so many people to learn from. being a beginner is something to be grateful for. #romanticizeyourlife #beginner #embracethejourney
- I wasn’t expecting my first Christmas after my mom passed to feel so hard. I was okay all morning. I went to go walk the dogs and then I broke down once I was alone. the permanence of her being gone and the fact that our story didn’t have the chance to end any other way hits harder on the holidays.
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- my winter vision board ✨❄️🎄✨
